Vacunella curvata ornata Waterhouse 1969 (clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae

Full reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1969. The Permian bivalve genera Myonia, Megadesmus, Vacunella and their allies, and their occurrences in New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 41:6-141

Belongs to Vacunella curvata according to J. B. Waterhouse 1969

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TM 3831, a valve. Its type locality is GS7811, Letham Burn (D44/f9882), which is in a Capitanian marine horizon in the Mangarewa Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GS7811, Letham Burn (D44/f9882)

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